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COFFEE: Is it a friend or Foe?
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. Yet myths about it refuse to die.
Let us separate facts from fiction. Bookmark this thread for future reference, and share for wider reach. Post your comments below.
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Coffee is NOT just a wake-up drink.
Coffee contains hundreds of biologically active compounds, including polyphenols and antioxidants. In fact, for many people, coffee is one of the largest sources of antioxidants in the diet.
Coffee is one of the most consumed beverages in the world. Yet myths about it refuse to die.
Let us separate facts from fiction. Bookmark this thread for future reference, and share for wider reach. Post your comments below.
1/n
Coffee is NOT just a wake-up drink.
Coffee contains hundreds of biologically active compounds, including polyphenols and antioxidants. In fact, for many people, coffee is one of the largest sources of antioxidants in the diet.
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Is coffee healthy?
The answer is surprisingly: YES.
Large studies consistently show that regular coffee consumption is associated with lower risks of:
✅ Type 2 diabetes
✅ Liver disease
✅ Fatty liver
✅ Liver cancer
✅ Parkinson's disease
✅ Cardiovascular disease
✅ Premature death
Association does not prove causation, but the evidence is remarkably consistent.
Is coffee healthy?
The answer is surprisingly: YES.
Large studies consistently show that regular coffee consumption is associated with lower risks of:
✅ Type 2 diabetes
✅ Liver disease
✅ Fatty liver
✅ Liver cancer
✅ Parkinson's disease
✅ Cardiovascular disease
✅ Premature death
Association does not prove causation, but the evidence is remarkably consistent.
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How much coffee is safe?
🔸For most healthy adults, up to 400 mg caffeine/day is considered safe. This equals roughly 3–5 cups of brewed coffee, or 2–4 espresso-based drinks (depending on strength).
🔸The exact caffeine content varies widely between brands and preparation methods.
How much coffee is safe?
🔸For most healthy adults, up to 400 mg caffeine/day is considered safe. This equals roughly 3–5 cups of brewed coffee, or 2–4 espresso-based drinks (depending on strength).
🔸The exact caffeine content varies widely between brands and preparation methods.
🚨 BREAKING: CHATGPT HAS A FEATURE CALLED FLIGHT BOOKING MODE.
YOU CAN USE IT TO FIND CHEAPER FLIGHTS ANYTIME.
HERE ARE 7 PROMPTS TO ACCESS IT:
YOU CAN USE IT TO FIND CHEAPER FLIGHTS ANYTIME.
HERE ARE 7 PROMPTS TO ACCESS IT:
"Act as an expert flight deal hunter. From [Departure City] to [Destination City] on [Dates] (flexibility: [Flexibility], baggage: [Requirements]), find the cheapest booking strategy, best date/airport alternatives, and cost-saving routes."
2. The Flexible Date Savings
"I want to travel from [ORIGIN] to [DESTINATION] around [DATE RANGE]. Analyze how changing departure or return dates by a few days might affect pricing and suggest the date windows that are often associated with lower fares."
"I want to travel from [ORIGIN] to [DESTINATION] around [DATE RANGE]. Analyze how changing departure or return dates by a few days might affect pricing and suggest the date windows that are often associated with lower fares."
James PURNELL - Bits & Pieces
Did you know Purnell is an Officer of the Royal National Theatre?
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Did you know Purnell is an Officer of the Royal National Theatre?
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/RkBFq…
2. Big Blanchett also an Officer ..
This is the second morning session, day two, of the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest v DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency.
We expect to resume some time after 11.05.
We expect to resume some time after 11.05.
We are waiting to be admitted. There may be a short delay.
Nassim Taleb wrote the book on why we're blind to the events that change everything.
"The Black Swan" revealed 10 ways we fool ourselves about risk and luck.
1) We explain the unpredictable only after it happens
"The Black Swan" revealed 10 ways we fool ourselves about risk and luck.
1) We explain the unpredictable only after it happens
Taleb calls it the narrative fallacy.
Something unexpected happens. A company collapses. A war starts. A technology changes everything overnight.
Within hours, experts are on television explaining exactly why it was inevitable.
The same people who never saw it coming are now building airtight stories about why they should have.
The story feels true because it is coherent. Coherence and accuracy are not the same thing.
We are not explaining the past. We are constructing it.
Something unexpected happens. A company collapses. A war starts. A technology changes everything overnight.
Within hours, experts are on television explaining exactly why it was inevitable.
The same people who never saw it coming are now building airtight stories about why they should have.
The story feels true because it is coherent. Coherence and accuracy are not the same thing.
We are not explaining the past. We are constructing it.
2) We mistake the absence of evidence for evidence of absence
Before 1697, every European who had ever seen a swan had seen a white one.
Not one person had seen a black swan. The conclusion felt obvious. All swans are white. The evidence was overwhelming. The sample size was enormous.
Then Dutch explorers reached Australia.
Taleb's point is not about swans. It is about every domain where you have never seen something go wrong and have concluded it therefore cannot.
The fact that it has not happened yet is not data about whether it will.
Before 1697, every European who had ever seen a swan had seen a white one.
Not one person had seen a black swan. The conclusion felt obvious. All swans are white. The evidence was overwhelming. The sample size was enormous.
Then Dutch explorers reached Australia.
Taleb's point is not about swans. It is about every domain where you have never seen something go wrong and have concluded it therefore cannot.
The fact that it has not happened yet is not data about whether it will.
1/ Russia's blocking of Telegram has had a disastrous impact on the reach and income of many Russians. This includes Russia's professional warbloggers, who have suffered a drastic drop in income that threatens to make their work financially unviable. ⬇️
2/ The 'Novorossiya militia reports' Telegram channel has been active online for 12 years. Its operators say it now faces a battle for its survival following the block on Telegram and an apparent algorithmic downranking on VKontakte (VK).
3/ An appeal to its readers for funds highlights how some are now struggling to make ends meet, and also provides an insight into the workings of professional warblogging outfits:
Russian Igor “Strelkov” Girkin writes from his prison cell of his surprise and new depths of pessimism regarding the Special Operation after Ukraine's great raid on Moscow.
“Brothers, sisters, friends, and colleagues!
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“Brothers, sisters, friends, and colleagues!
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“I understand that my letter will not reach you for quite some time because, it seems, it will have already lost its relevance by then. Nevertheless, I believe it is necessary to write a few words about the current situation and my impressions of it.
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“ ‘The raid on Moscow.’ To be frank, even I—with all my ‘pessimism’—did not expect that the ‘partners’ (not mine!) would be able to do this so easily and… not with missiles, but merely with drones. And what happens when, or if, the missiles start coming?
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🚨 The Ultimate Science-Based Guide to Training Every Muscle Group.
Based on biomechanics & real results, No fluff.
Save this thread. Your body will thank you🧵
Based on biomechanics & real results, No fluff.
Save this thread. Your body will thank you🧵
💪 ARM DAY
Target biceps, triceps + shoulders for that sleeve-busting thickness.
Preacher Curl, Skull Crushers, Overhead Triceps, Kickbacks & more.
Target biceps, triceps + shoulders for that sleeve-busting thickness.
Preacher Curl, Skull Crushers, Overhead Triceps, Kickbacks & more.
🛠️ CHEST DAY
Hit upper, middle & lower chest from every angle for full development.
Incline Press, Flat Bench, Declines, Cable Flyes & more.
What’s your favorite chest exercise? Comment it 👇
Hit upper, middle & lower chest from every angle for full development.
Incline Press, Flat Bench, Declines, Cable Flyes & more.
What’s your favorite chest exercise? Comment it 👇
This is the morning session, day two, of the employment tribunal of Samantha Tempest v DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency. We expect to begin at 10am.
Tempest (the claimant or C) is claiming discrimination, harassment and/or victimisation on grounds of gender reassignment. Central to the claim is the Sex Equality and Equity Network in the Civil Service (SEEN or IP). SEEN has been granted right to intervene.
ADHD PATTERNS THAT MAKE LIFE HEAVIER
(than it needs to be) :
1. They carry every unfinished task mentally
(than it needs to be) :
1. They carry every unfinished task mentally
1. They carry every unfinished task mentally
Instead of letting a task wait, their brain keeps reminding them it's still there. Those constant mental reminders become exhausting over time.
Instead of letting a task wait, their brain keeps reminding them it's still there. Those constant mental reminders become exhausting over time.
2. They turn small delays into big burdens
A task that takes five minutes gets postponed for days. The longer it sits, the heavier and more intimidating it begins to feel.
A task that takes five minutes gets postponed for days. The longer it sits, the heavier and more intimidating it begins to feel.
1/ Russian warbloggers have frequently called for the destruction of the bridges over the Dnipro to cripple Ukraine's ability to move troops and supplies. However, a recent Russian strike highlights why this hasn't happened: they keep missing. ⬇️
2/ 'Shakespeare' credulously repeats official Russian propaganda lines about the success of the strikes:
"And on the eve [of 20 June 2026], strikes were quietly and somewhat modestly carried out against enemy bridges: 12 gliding bombs "shut down" the logistics of Zaporizhzhia."
"And on the eve [of 20 June 2026], strikes were quietly and somewhat modestly carried out against enemy bridges: 12 gliding bombs "shut down" the logistics of Zaporizhzhia."
3/ "The strikes were carried out by the Russian Armed Forces using 500 kg gliding bombs.
Andy Burnham is now the frontrunner to be Britain's next Prime Minister.
Nobody is asking what he actually built in Manchester, which has everything to do with Zone Fever, which is quietly extracting massive amounts of State aid (public money) to privatise the entire UK without any mention in the MSM whatsoever.
Let me explain why that matters.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack. No one else in the UK is focusing on the stealth nationwide rollout of free zones, initiated by the Tories, and fully backed and continued under the Labour Party.
🧵
open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…
Nobody is asking what he actually built in Manchester, which has everything to do with Zone Fever, which is quietly extracting massive amounts of State aid (public money) to privatise the entire UK without any mention in the MSM whatsoever.
Let me explain why that matters.
Please read, share and subscribe to my Substack. No one else in the UK is focusing on the stealth nationwide rollout of free zones, initiated by the Tories, and fully backed and continued under the Labour Party.
🧵
open.substack.com/pub/europeanpo…
On 22 June, Manchester United announced it had secured land for its new 100,000-seat stadium.
The land was owned by Indurent, a UK warehouse company owned by Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager, with $1 trillion under management.
Four days earlier, Burnham had left office.
The timing is not incidental.
For nine years, Burnham was the primary architect of the institutional and regulatory framework that made the Old Trafford regeneration zone investable.
And made Blackstone's land, sitting inside it, enormously valuable.
The land was owned by Indurent, a UK warehouse company owned by Blackstone, the world's largest alternative asset manager, with $1 trillion under management.
Four days earlier, Burnham had left office.
The timing is not incidental.
For nine years, Burnham was the primary architect of the institutional and regulatory framework that made the Old Trafford regeneration zone investable.
And made Blackstone's land, sitting inside it, enormously valuable.
In November 2023, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt announced the Greater Manchester Investment Zone.
£160 million in state aid. Planning powers. Infrastructure earmarks.
Burnham welcomed it. "A vote of confidence in devolution."
What he didn't say: this was a Labour mayor co-signing a Tory deregulation framework.
This is the same architecture Labour officially opposed.
£160 million in state aid. Planning powers. Infrastructure earmarks.
Burnham welcomed it. "A vote of confidence in devolution."
What he didn't say: this was a Labour mayor co-signing a Tory deregulation framework.
This is the same architecture Labour officially opposed.
